Suhler (11/16/89)
I've got a 4-1/2 year old ImageWriter-I whose traction feed began to slip about six months ago. Whenever I run something heavy through, like an envelope, it slips and print lines run together. What can I do: replace springs? Sandpaper the platen? Thanks. Paul Suhler Hybrid Dataflow Systems 914-789-7490
pxw@augean.OZ (Paul Whitbread) (11/17/89)
In article <1989Nov15.212920.3068@arnor.uucp> SUHLER@IBM.COM writes: >I've got a 4-1/2 year old ImageWriter-I whose traction feed began to slip >about six months ago. Whenever I run something heavy through, like an envelope >it slips and print lines run together. > > .... Me too. But mine also slips with standard A4 bond (7gms) paper. I blamed strained springs because I first noticed it after using a borrowed Thunderscanner to digitize a photograph which was on very thick paper. However, it is clearly a problem when the roller is dirty. My partial solution has been to clean the roller with alcohol (meth spirits, not brandy!) each time I have trouble. But don't expect this to work too well or for too long. I find it very frustrating to be printing a multipage document and find some of the pages that I didn't watch carefully are no good. Paul Whitbread pxw@augean.ua.oz.au